Critical Times

May Day March & Family Picnic
Saturday 2 May
Assemble Victoria Square 10am for 10.30am start

March to Torrens Parade Grounds to the music of
Thunderbox Carbunkle & the Lonely Cosmonauts
Family picnic from 11am at Torrens Parade Grounds

• Speakers’ Corner
• Kid’s entertainment – Clowns, face painting, bouncy castle
• Sausage sizzle and other food and community stands

Speakers include Correna Haythorpe, AEU-SA President;
Dave Noonan, CFMEU - National Secretary,
Construction and General Division
Janet Giles – SA Unions – Secretary
Sun May 3
Workers Memorial Black Diamond Corner 10:00am
BBQ & Beer Semaphore Workers Club 11:30-4:00
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By retired Lieutenant-Colonel Lance Collins (former head of Military Intelligence under INTERFET), who presented this speech to the “ANZAC EVE (Denis Kevans Memorial) PEACE FESTIVAL” – LEICHHARDT TOWN HALL, Sydney.

I have deployed on two overseas military operations. The first was a brief deployment to Kuwait in February 1998, a precautionary defence against Saddam Hussein during the weapons inspection crisis.

Please distribute widely in your workplaces and community – leaflet also attached

Support Sacked West Gate Bridge Workers and Their Families

Community Picnic
Sunday 26 April

12.00 pm onwards

Yarraville Gardens

Yarraville, Melway 42, C8

Speakers include sacked West Gate Bridge Workers, Fr Bob Maguire, community members

Music, bands, Chris Wilson, the Conch & more.

LEICHHARDT TOWN HALL (Sydney,Australia)
& the Evening Benefit for “Friends of Maliana” FROM 6PM-11PM

(1) MORNING FILM FESTIVAL ON PEACE THEME…

By Renfrey Clarke

“One hundred percent renewable electricity generation in Australia by 2020!” That was the bold call, endorsed by representatives of more than 100 climate action groups, that went out from the national Climate Summit held in Canberra in February.

By and large, the established media have ignored this summons – or else, dismissed it as green wish-dreaming. Renewable energy sources, the mainstream press generally has it, are incapable of replacing fossil fuels, especially coal, in providing the 24-hours-a-day “base-load” power that is the bedrock of electricity supply systems.

On Friday March 27, around 40 people met at the Migration Museum Chapel in the city to launch the “Spirit of Eureka Committee – Adelaide” and the “Eureka Charter”. The “Spirit of Eureka Committee” in Melbourne has been in existence for 5 years, since 2004, the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. Last year, November 28th, the Melbourne Committee launched its Eureka Charter this being the motivator for the “Spirit of Eureka Committee – Adelaide” (SoE) to form.

By Renfrey Clarke

Sometimes you have to hand it to capitalism. It’s sheer magic, the way the system takes promising concepts, steeps them in the transformative power of the market – and turns them into howling social and environmental disasters.
Take biofuels, for example.

Source: Progressive Educator

We know we are making progress putting pressure on this government when MPs as high as the Treasurer see fit to berate you (as long as it’s in private).

At a recent Community Cabinet Meeting, where the Premier and Cabinet meet local community members and pretend to answer their questions, Kevin Foley initiated a conversation with me in the bathroom. As I was standing at the stall, he read the slogan on the back of my appleforteacher T-shirt.

Anzac Eve Acoustica – A Timor Benefit. For Leichhardt Council’s “Friends of Maliana” – 6pm, Friday 24 April, 2009. At the Leichhardt Town Hall.

Ian Angus, the editor of Climate and Capitalism an online Ecosocialist journal in Canada will be addressing a forum in Adelaide, entitled, Climate Change: Is capitalism destroying the planet?

Time: 3pm, Sunday 5th April

Venue: Adelaide South West Community Centre